Wrapping Up: Evolving Practives in AV Archiving

Summing Up Jeff Ubois

Beeld en Geluid

Agenda

•Themes from StF

•A bit more on economics

•New patterns of production & PDA

Themes (I)

•Structures for collaboration

•Vendor relations

•Software development & FOSS

•Internal (cataloging, tracking, QA)

•External (web facing)

•FOSS

Marshall McLuhan

• “New media contain old media”

•New media evolves by incorporating old media

•Archives and rich media contain all previous media -- text, image, audio, video

Economics

•Predictability: What do expenses & income look like, long term?

•Boundaries: what is the relation between the commercial & non-commercial sectors?

•Institutions / Individuals: top down vs bottom up approaches to preservation

Demand/Supply

•Society’s ever-increasing demands for vast amounts of data to be kept for the future are not matched by suitably lavish funds. Thus, absent a technological miracle, bit preservation is a problem with which we are doomed to struggle indefinitely. - David S.H. Rosenthal

The Deficit

Predictability

•Predictable costs essential for organizations that promise long term access

•Ingest, storage, other costs vary

•Complex cost models illustrate more uncertainty (LIFE, CET, KRDS, DANS)

Reported Scanning Costs

•Text pages: €0.1 - €0.8 / page

•Images €0.72 - 6 / page

•Audio: €6.42 - €78.84 / hour

•Videotape: €5.46 - €120 /hour

•Film: €8 - €1040 / hour

• Source: Numeric

Storage costs

Complex Cost Models

LIFE, LIFE2, LIFE3

NASA’s CET

CMDP

KRDS

Curtis & Cartwright ...

Pay Once Models Gap between project based funding, need for perpetuity (eg NSF, NIH)

Real estimates:

Princeton: $5K/TB (~100x media cost)

PrestoPRIME: 40x raw media cost

IA $2000/TB

Roles for Commerce

•Scanning and Ingest (preservation factory)

•Cataloging & indexing

•Clearance

•Long term access...maybe not so much

Comite des Sages: “With no exaggeration, we can state that what is at stake is a common

good of humanity and not just of Europe.” “The public sector has the primary responsibility to

fund digitisation, and Member States willneed to considerably step up their investments in

digitisation. The current financial crisiscannot be ignored, but equally cannot be a reason for

not acting.”

Partnerships

•Partnerships aren’t free: huge commercial uncertainties can mean harsh terms

•Mixed record

•Need more standard terms (C.d.S.)

“Monetization”

•“Monetization is a false promise...if it weren’t, we’d be meeting at a different hotel” - Rick Prelinger

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Personal Archiving

•PDA 2011 @ IA, ~140 people

•Library management, imaging, healthcare, religion, privacy, sci-fi and SNs...

•Coverage via #PDA2011

“...the role of personal archives in daily life and their research value have never been more

profound. The potential benefits to society and to individuals are both deep and far reaching

in their capacity to empower research and human well being and advancement.”

Direct Public Engagement

•New patterns of production

•New challenge (and opp?)

•New responsibilities for CH institutions

PrestoCentre

•Library

•Tools

•Training

•Collaborative effort

Thank you Jeff Ubois

www.prestocentre.eu